promote the awareness of multiculturalism as well as social tolerance and respect for
migrants in the country. In order to promote understanding among different races through
cultural diversity as prescribed in the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Commission formed a university student monitoring
group to monitor racial discrimination comments on the Internet contents from the 1st to
the 31st of October in 2010.
The monitoring results showed that the degree of racial discrimination comments in
Korean society reached a serious level, and the Commission concluded that it was
necessary to prepare certain measures to improve in this regard. Thus, the Commission
expressed the following opinion to the Minister for Justice and the Chairperson of the
Korea Internet Self-governance Organization Committee. The Commission delivered its
opinion that "policies for promoting understanding among all races" prescribed in the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination should
be reflected and implemented in the Basic Plan for Policy on Foreigners, which includes
appropriate regulatory measures on expressions instigating racism on the Internet contents.
The Commission delivered its opinion to the Chairperson of the Korea Internet
Self-governance Organization Committee that, based on Article 5(1) and Article 8 of the
Deliberation Regulations on Telecommunications by the Korea Communication Standards
Commission, the effective voluntary measures should be in place to prevent the
dissemination of racial discrimination comments.
23) Policy Recommendation to Ensure the Right to Education of Teenage Single
Mothers
In order to ensure the teenage single mothers' right to education, the Commission
delivered its opinion to the Minister for Health and Welfare, the Minister for Education,
Science and Technology, and superintendents in each region and city that measures should
be formulated to change perceptions and responses towards teenage single mothers at
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